In theory, yes. But I would say that before we can run--and that's really running, and in a graceful way--I say let's walk. We can't even get what it is you need that you are entitled to by law. You cannot even get this today. The law already provides for this in subsection 2(2), where it says this complements existing processes. There's nothing that prevents the administration--I make a difference between government and administration--from posting anything that they have in a proactive way.
If somebody is asking about, for instance, the passenger list on the Challenger flights and this is being asked every month, and every month you release it and it's part of the public records, eventually the light would go on and you'd say, we're going to post it on the DND website; this is the list of the thing. And if you do this, you're going to reduce your workload, and you will increase your sense of transparency and the sense of confidence that people have in you. Open government? By all means. Most of that should be transparent.
The issue now is--allow me to joke for a moment--if you were to ask a department to give you the time of day, they would ask you why. And they ask you to submit the request. I often speak to people in the media, and they say, what if I were to ask that? Ask, and the first response is, “Put in an access request.” That was not the purpose of this act. In fact, this act is to complement; it's when you hit a block, because this document is for you to have. It has to be processed to exclude and to exempt material and so on, but as for anything else, you should have it.